that does it for the beat tonight. you can always find us on facebook at the the beat with ari. hardball has promised is up next. finding more, let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris mat use. san francisco, roy moore republican colleagues, a new powerful voice that has weighed in. united states attorney general and former senior senator from alabama, jeff sessions joined a number of his former colleagues in saying he has no reason to doubt the women who have accused u.s. senate candidate roy moore of sexual misconduct allegations moore denies.
here s the attorney general. i took the liberty of reviewing federal crimes against children, particularly those dealing with sexual or physical abuse. as you well know, lee coughman, wendy miller, debby watson gibson and beverly young nelson, these young women have accused this individual, judge moore, who is running for a federal office, the united states senate, of child sexual activity. do you believe these young women? i
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i ve said that to sarah huckabee sanders. i ll continue saying that. the war started when steve bannon at cpac said the press was an opposition party and the enemy. it s wrong. i support the president. you don t have to be on side on every single issue. i don t believe in litmus tests. i think he s done a very, very good job. his speech away from the rhetoric about the press was very good last night. what about the idea that no one that people are telling him to drop this rhetoric and he s not listening. is this why you wasn t in the job longer? he dupoesn t want to hear this advice? i made a mistake and got fired by john kelly for that mistake. i bear the accountability for that. i m telling you that the most loyal people, your most loyal employee, your most loyal staff are offering you constructive advice and telling you balls and strikes the way they see them as
opposed to just acting. i would encourage people in the west wing if
and the controlling law. use of an obstruction theory from the mueller report would be unsupported, unsupportable in the house and unsustainable in the senate. do you remember writing that? yes, i do. why did you write that? because i think it s true. the fact is that this was reviewed by main justice. the special counsel did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. he should have. i think his justification quite frankly was a bit absurd on not reaching a conclusion. but the attorney general, deputy attorney general, did and they came to the right conclusion. i don t think this is a real case for obstruction. but then this body would be impeaching the president on the basis of the inverse conclusion. i don t believe it would be appropriate. the gentleman s time has expired. ms. dean. thank you, mr. chairman. words matter. in my earlier life, professors, i was a professor of writing. i taught my students to be
careful and clear about what they put to paper. that is a lesson
Flailing in the situation. there is reporting from the wall street journal, we have not been able to confirm that the united states is splitting an idea that if israel accepts a two state solution, something benjamin netanyahu has not only been against but has been elected on the basis from day one of standing against, if they were to accept that, the united states would arrange for saudi arabia to recognize israel and normalize relations, which, in., would lead to other arab neighbors doing so. sounds like an interesting idea. any possibility of it being true or getting any traction? i think it is very likely true. i don t have 100% confirmation but in jerusalem, people are operating as if that were an option on the table. the issue is the united states doesn t control either what saudi arabia does, with the palestinians will do, and i doubt it is possible with benjamin netanyahu, although it puts him in a terrible, terrible corner, which may be what the biden administration want
Not necessarily what s about to happen or what s happening right now in israel. israel is an outliar. he was an unpopular prime minister and his popularity has crashed since. i think in part it is because he really sold himself to the israeli people as their security god. their savior, only i can do it. i can go through years of campaign slogans that show that. i want to add another aspect which is he also said he was i israel s mrs. security. that has crashed and burn. israel faces a level of critique internationally that will israelis are not accustomed to. i think israelis are seeing netanyahu as flailing in this situation. there s reporting from the wall street journal that we ve not been able to confirm that the united states is floating an idea that if israel accepts a two state solution, something that benjamin netanyahu has not
The arab states involved. so we re trying to keep peace in the region, but it s becoming very hard to do. it s kind of like a rough retried to stop between two guys who are flailing at each other and you re going to get punched on both sides when it comes to the conflict in ukraine the president biden has been very clear. there. they re going to be limits to how involved the united states is. do you think that there will be any limits when it comes to israel that they know that remains to be seen. i mean, i think this is saturday was very unusual, not only in the direct rating attack, but also in the direct us response and of course, a lot of ukrainians were saying, well, why isn t the us defending us the way they re defending israel? but i think there is a logic here that the us is desperately trying to prevent a wider war in the region. and so now the issue is did israel ignore us warnings not to attack iran? and if so, do we wind up defending israel anyway, from the inevitable irani
In there all just kind of like haphazardly doing this. look at your flailing right? no, exactly like. but you re like, what? you what? you just reminded me of those things. that inflatable thing at the car. yes, i havat e that should you should be in front of the auto parts store. yeah, i kno parts sw, i my t in my application but they said that thing didn t have to be paidation bu i wage but iy i didn t not even want to really get in because they re just like they get them, they re like yea h. so i don t know, there s something, there s something weird goinird goin g on here. i feel, joe, that he was anes inspiration the dadsg up are finally waking up problem and he she s a had enough. he s a message to the rest of america. what say you members only manyeah, yo? yeah. you mess with that guy. you going to have to mess with gabrielle carteriwi gabriee oh, well, he s just going to meet me at the peach pi pt j right. wow. this just vindicates me for only traveling by a rollerth
first not freeze like he did in his 2022 gubernatorial debate. he was really caught off guard. he s not known as a strong debater. i don t know what he can really do in this debate to really help him out of his flailing campaign. it s more an issue of can he not harm himself. do you think he has the most on the line or somebody else? i think tim scott has the most on the line. he s the one who s getting a fresh look. a lot of people have started to write off desantis. they re looking to tim scott, but they don t know him and they want to see if he s ready for prime time. he has a good story, they know he s very nice, what else do you have? what is he going to bring? and now tonight is the night that he has to stand up and really deliver. i appreciate all of that, thank you so much for those quick hits, susan del percio. up next, high wire drama, how rescuers managed to save seven children and a teacher
let s be honest, ron desantis s campaign is flopping and flailing. he along with others are pretty much auditioning to be the vice president. that s why you don t see them really going against donald trump. you have a few of them like governor asa hundreds and, and governor chris christie, that are there to stop him from becoming the hot nominee. but they don t have the chance either. what i would say for rhonda scent is is that it s a bit too late for him to pivot from his extremely radical record. he should try to do what he can to end up as the number two in the tica. jonathan, what with that receives has in mind. the nomination is one state by state, delegate by delegate. if you look at national polling averages from 5:38, trump s nearly 40% ahead of his closest competitor, ron desantis. do you expect candidates at the debate are gonna focus on desantis to get more attainable second place spot that the sand is apparently is going for? i think so.